Scriptless fork button

button.css

#fork-me a
{
	background-color: #eee;
	background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,#fcfcfc,#eee);
	background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top,#fcfcfc,#eee);
	background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom,#fcfcfc,#eee);
	-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#fcfcfc', endColorstr='#eeeeee')";

	height: 26px;
	display: inline-block;
	padding: 0 10px 0 6px;
	vertical-align: middle;
	cursor: pointer;
	border: 1px solid #d5d5d5;
	border-radius: 3px;

	color: #333;
	font-size: 13px;
	line-height: 26px;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-family: sans-serif;
	text-decoration: none;
}
#fork-me a img
{
	max-height: 20px;
	vertical-align: middle;
	margin-right: 4px;
}
#fork-me a:hover
{
	background-color: #ddd;
	background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,#eee,#ddd);
	background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top,#eee,#ddd);
	background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom,#eee,#ddd);
	border-color: #ccc;
	-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#eeeeee', endColorstr='#dddddd')";
}

button.html

<div id="fork-me"><a href="https://github.com/torvalds/kernel"><img src='data:image/svg+xml;UTF-8,<svg xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="300" width="220" version="1.1" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" viewBox="0 0 220 300"><g transform="translate(0 -752)"><path d="m207 812c-1.79 7.4-7.54 15.8-13.2 19.3-2.04 1.26-2.09 1.39-2.09 5.59 0 6.97-1.26 16.7-3.12 24-4.28 16.9-12.9 31-29.7 48.4-14.7 15.2-19.1 20.2-22.7 25.6-6.28 9.39-8.93 17.6-9.8 30.4l-0.429 6.32 2.83 1.95c3.29 2.26 7.26 6.61 9.45 10.3 6.02 10.3 5.65 24.2-0.901 34-12.7 19.1-39.4 20-53.2 1.81-8.04-10.6-8.79-24.8-1.93-36.5 2.01-3.43 8.36-9.92 10.3-10.5 1.28-0.405 1.31-0.677 0.968-8.32-0.404-9.06-1.9-15.7-5.1-22.4-3.8-8-8-13-25.3-31-11.8-12-17.3-19-22.2-27-7.54-12.7-11.7-28-11.7-43.2-0.0037-6.56-0.0104-6.59-1.77-7.63-5.42-3.2-11.4-11.4-13.5-18.6-1.29-4.41-1.29-13.2 0-17.6 2.94-9.99 10.5-18.2 20.2-21.9 4.83-1.84 13.5-2.29 18.6-0.968 17.6 4.51 28.3 21.7 24.2 39-1.82 7.71-7.45 16-13.3 19.6l-2.17 1.34 0.354 7.55c0.617 13.1 4.04 22.4 12.3 33.2 2.37 3.09 9.82 11.4 16.6 18.4 6.74 7 14 15.1 16.2 18l3.95 5.24 4.37-5.47c2.41-3.01 8.9-10.2 14.4-16 5.54-5.77 11.8-12.5 13.9-15 10.5-12.2 15-23.4 15.9-39.2l0.365-6.57-1.84-1.06c-3.1-1.79-8.71-7.9-10.7-11.6-2.8-5.28-3.87-9.65-3.87-15.7 0-9.5 3.17-16.9 9.96-23.3 6.86-6.45 13.5-9.21 22.2-9.21 21 0 36.8 19.8 31.8 40.1zm-14-16c-3.27-6.76-8.82-10.4-16.6-10.8-4.53-0.249-5.49-0.0963-8.75 1.39-2.01 0.92-4.46 2.43-5.45 3.36-12.5 11.8-5.22 32.6 11.8 33.7 9.31 0.597 17.2-4.62 20-13.2 1.25-3.83 0.76-10.8-1.03-14.5zm-65 197c-1.68-3.82-6.29-8.4-10.2-10.2-2.44-1.09-4.27-1.41-7.87-1.38-5.88 0.0551-9.53 1.58-13.7 5.73-11.6 11.6-4.18 31.6 12.3 33.1 14.5 1.31 25.3-13.9 19.4-27.3zm-65.7-197c-3.31-6.83-8.92-10.5-16.7-10.9-4.53-0.249-5.48-0.0944-8.9 1.44-15.2 6.83-15.6 27.7-0.585 35.4 3.35 1.71 10 2.28 13.9 1.18 5.66-1.58 11.4-7.06 13.2-12.7 1.24-3.79 0.778-10.8-0.946-14.4z"/></g></svg>' />Fork me on GitHub</a></div>

button.js

// This button does not use any javascript.

result-2dppx.png

result.png